A congressional staffer, Zach Barth, was also injured. Jeff Flake of Arizona, who was at the practice. Scalise, 51, the No. 3 House Republican leader first elected to the House in 2008, was in stable condition and undergoing surgery. The chief of Capitol Police visited her Wednesday afternoon. "It would have been a massacre without them". "One of our security detail was shooting back, but it was our pistol versus the shooter's rifle", Brooks said.

The shooting took place at Eugene Simpson Stadium Park, in the Del Ray section of Alexandria about seven miles from the Capitol. He said Mr Scalise dragged himself into the outfield to get away from the gunman. Two now-removed Facebook posts that may have belonged to Hodgkinson were highly critical of Trump. -The idea is "Senate and House members of each party team up to settle scores and solidify friendships off the floor and on the field", the Congressional Baseball Game's website ...

The Post , citing unnamed sources, said the investigation into the president's own conduct began shortly after Trump fired Comey on May 9. Ruddy told ABC News that he stands by his comments that the president is considering asking Rosenstein to terminate Mueller.

Capitol Police ". The House made a decision to not hold any votes on legislation Wednesday, and many hearings were delayed. A congressional aide and two Capitol Police officers were also hit. "This is a stable situation", Michael Brown, chief of police for Alexandria, Virginia, told reporters. Sanders said Wednesday he is "sickened by this despicable act" and noted Hodgkinson apparently volunteered on his campaign.

The chief minister said the government has been collecting detailed information from all districts and is yet to receive a full report due to snag in communication lines. Over 400 hectares of farmland with standing crops have been inundated due to incessant rains in the three districts. Hundreds of families have been evacuated across the state, and 10 people have reportedly died thus far.

Zachary Barth, a legislative correspondent working for Texas Rep. Roger Williams , was among those shot as well, according to a statement from Williams. "He was not able to move under his own power". At the same time I hear Steve Scalise over near second base scream. "There was not a whole lot we could do".

Hodgkinson owned a home inspection business. There is no known motive for the shooting right now, but the Alexandria Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are on scene investigating. "After the first shot, then there was a rapid succession of shots, five or 10 shots", said Paul, who was in a right field batting cage when shots first rang out.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions repeatedly refused to answer questions from senators during a Tuesday hearing about his conversations with President Trump on the FBI investigation into Russian interference. The attorney general has recused himself from the Russia investigation - a decision he sought to cast on Tuesday as resulting from his role on the Trump campaign, rather than because of any inappropriate interaction with Russian officials .

AIIMS New Delhi has also announced the dates for counselling for the shortlisted candidates through MBBS entrance exam held in All over India . This is published unedited from the ANI feed . Checking the results is necessary. All candidates have requested to check the official web portal aiimsexams.org for AIIMS MBBS Entrance Exam Results 2017 .

The news came the same week as Trump friend Chris Ruddy floated the possibility that Trump would fire Mueller, who was appointed to head up the investigation after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey . "I don't think it's necessary for us to meet (again)", Burr said. "As long as I'm in this position, he's not going to be fired without cause", he added.

Until now, it was examining Russia's alleged efforts to tilt last November's presidential election Mr Trump's way and whether the winner's campaign was involved in any way. According to the Post , it did change after Trump fired Comey. While a sitting president is unlikely to face criminal prosecution, obstruction of justice could form the basis for impeachment.

Noah Nathan, a bystander identified by PBS Newshour , caught the Alexandria, Virginia shooting on camera Wednesday, and in the video, over least 70 shots can be heard among the panic. President Donald Trump made an evening visit to the hospital where a critically wounded U.S. congressman is receiving treatment Wednesday. "My thoughts and prayers to everyone!" the first lady tweeted shortly after news broke of a gunman shooting a senior Republican lawmaker and several others gathered to ...

In his final post on Twitter , Hodgkinson tweeted at Democrats, calling for them to filibuster Trump's nomination of Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court. During an early afternoon conference call with reporters, Davis described the shooter as "a madman" and "crazed lunatic". The report says Hodgkinson resorted to dragging his daughter out of her friend's vehicle, slashing her seatbelt, and punching his daughter's friend in the face.

He was operated on at an area hospital and is listed in critical condition. A total of five people were struck in the shooting, including the gunman, now identified as 66-year-old James Hodgkinson from the state of IL. The FBI has taken over the investigation, local police say, because the attack involved violence against a federal officer. Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California said on Twitter that Thursday's game is still on.

In the picture, Sessions could be seen speaking with two men who were standing with their backs to the camera. "Yes, I do", said Sessions after a giggle went up in the room. Despite Sessions' accounting of his meetings with Russian diplomats during the course of the 2016 presidential campaign, senators repeatedly peppered Sessions with the same general question about whether he had met with Russian officials during the course of the campaign.

The U.S. Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point. The most important pillar of the economy - the job market - remains solid if slowing, with unemployment at a 16-year-low of 4.3 percent. Chair Janet Yellen was asked at a news conference whether she anxious that the Fed could rattle markets once it starts shrinking its bond holdings.

He had been living out of his van in the Alexandria area in recent months, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said . They attended to a wounded staff member who had been shot in the leg, he said, and then laid back down in the dugout. The White House said Trump and Vice President Mike Pence were both notified of the shooting in Alexandria. Hodgkinson's apparent Facebook page included strong criticism of Republicans and the Trump administration.

After she welcomed the appointment of the new Speaker, the Prime Minister urged MPs to recognise "we all want to see a Britain that is stronger, fairer and safe and secure for our children and grandchildren". "Far from being strong and stable, the Government Theresa May is putting together is weak, wobbly and out of control". Theresa May has no mandate to govern, he suggested, and her administration is "on notice from voters".

He said that they, as the opposition in yesterday's all-party meeting, urged the government to ensure the safety of special status and fiscal autonomy of the state. "In response, the Finance Minister assured both chambers and others that the GST shall be implemented the way it suits the state and sought suggestions.

Stump says a YouTube conspiracy theorist reported a suspected threat aboard a container ship in the port. A dirty bomb combines radioactive material with conventional explosives. Wednesday and traveled from NY. One Coast Guard official told WCSC, "the Maersk Memphis is now moored at Charleston's Wando terminal which has been evacuated while bomb detection units from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies investigate the threat".

The attorney general's office said that five state and city officials had been charged with manslaughter, including Lyon, former Flint emergency manager, Darnell Earle, and three other low-ranking officials. Dr. Eden Wells , the state's chief medical officer, was also charged Wednesday with obstruction of justice and lying to an investigator. The others are people who were already facing charges in the state's investigation of how Flint's water system became poisoned with lead.

In the meantime, I'm towards the right field side of the dugout and there's gunfire within about five or six, seven feet of my head and I look up and there's a guy with a gun blasting away. "T$3 he shooter starts circling around third base". Brooks then recounted the courageous action of the Capitol Hill Police, who were there as a security detail and returned fire on the gunman.

The shooter in this morning's attack at the Republican Congressional Baseball Game practice has been identified by the Washington Post as James T. Beginning around the summer of 2015, Hodgkinson began expressing enthusiastic support for Sanders' 2016 campaign, and federal records showed he donated $18 to the effort.

It is "the most powerful console every made" according to Xbox head Phil Spencer during E3 2017 . Minecraft works cross-platform between Switch , Xbox and PC. How do we bring that to scale in a console in your living room? Xbox One X is a book of tales containing the same old stories only this time published on a watercolor paper.

Grenfell Tower is believed to house between 400 and 600 people. Ash Sha, 30, who witnessed the fire and has an aunt in the building who managed to escape from the second floor, said the local council had renovated the tower. The work included new exterior cladding , new windows and a communal heating system. Residents who escaped told how they woke up to the smell of burning and rushed to leave through smoke-filled corridors and stairwells.

He said the gunman had "a rifle of some sort. a lot of ammo". Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his condolences. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana was shot at a congressional baseball practice, congressional officials say.

She added: "What the public want to see now is rather than the parties using this as an excuse to constantly be sniping, what the public will judge all politicians on is how prepared are we to work together in the national interest". Mr Drakeford added: "As John Major has said , if this turns out simply to be cash for votes, then that is a very, very undignified position for the United Kingdom government to have put itself in".

The man identified as the gunman who wounded several people, including a congressman, at a Republican baseball practice in the Washington, D.C., area on Wednesday campaigned in the Quad-Cities for Sen. After Hodgkinson's Facebook profiles were discovered by news reporters, they were updated to prevent public access. As the shooting made national news, it took about an hour for friends in Mika's hometown in MI to learn he not only was present on the field, but was among five people ...

A top House Republican, Steve Scalise of Louisiana, was shot at the congressional baseball practice, officials said. An acquaintance of the man who shot at a Republican baseball practice on Wednesday morning said he was "shocked" to hear about the incident.

Dear Evan Hansen scooped the most Tony Awards of all the nominees, including Best New Musical. Uma Thurman spoke onstage during the 2017 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall, but still had to present her invite at the after-party. "This thing has the ability to lift your spirits in these bad, awful times ", said Midler, an outspoken Trump critic, in a speech that extended well past her allotted time at Radio City Musical Hall.

Alternatively, you can wait until 2018 and pick up the remake of the game for the PS4 and PS4 Pro for $60. E3 always delivers dozens of trailers straight to the gaping mouths of gamers across the world, but only once every few years do we get a show that ushers in a new era of gaming.

Scalise was standing in the infield and fell where he stood. The FBI identified the gunman as 66-year-old James Hodgkinson of Belleville, Illinois . Sen. "We were doing batting practice", said Flake. Richmond played baseball in college and kicked off his congressional career with a one-hitter in 2011 and has been the game's dominant player pretty much since then.

She added: "I need your help to make it a birthday my husband will never forget". Trump's family has a history of hosting lavish celebrations for the occasion at his properties - from broadcasting birthday messages from Elton John and Dolly Parton at his 44th birthday party at Trump Castle's Crystal Ballroom in 1990, to showing off carefully choreographed waterfall features at a champagne-filled 50th bash at Trump Tower in 1996.

They batted really well, but we came back strongly. "If you talk about pressure, I think India has more pressure than us". Going to big games like this, we will be treating it like we treated our last game. The battle between the two teams sparked controversies too. Ask any Bangladeshi, and he/she would say Rohit Sharma being given not out in that 2015 World Cup quarter-final was a "smacks of conspiracy" because of India's "hold in ICC".

The Golden State Warriors looked in a majestic form throughout the NBA Playoffs, and beat Cleveland Cavaliers 4-1 to win their second title in three years. They beat us tonight. "They have an incredible team ". Completing a flawless 9-0 run at home during the postseason, the Warriors became the first San Francisco Bay Area team to win a championship at home since the Oakland Athletics won the 1974 World Series.

Ananya's victory was the first time since 2013 that the bee has declared a single champion. Trump initially tweeted the made-up word Tuesday, appearing to attempt to spell "coverage" in another attack of the media. Ananya Vinay , 12, beat 14-year-old Rohan Rajeev and became the 13th consecutive victor of Indian origin. The two determined spellers went back and forth for about 45 minutes, peeling off word after word in a tense competition of spelling prowess.